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Rafia Shahbaz

@rafiashahbaz

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AWS Cloud Engineer and DevOps specialist building secure serverless infrastructure and automation for global clients.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for remote-friendly roles where I can build and support secure AWS cloud infrastructure, automate deployments with CI/CD, and own monitoring and incident-ready security practices—ideally as a Cloud Engineer or Cloud Support Engineer.

I’m a Cloud Engineer with hands-on experience building and deploying AWS infrastructure, with a strong networking and cybersecurity foundation. I deliver production-grade cloud projects that emphasize a security-first approach.

I’ve worked across serverless architecture, infrastructure as code, containerization, and CI/CD automation—turning requirements into reliable systems. My projects include a fully serverless URL shortener using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and CloudFront, plus a Terraform-based AWS infrastructure setup with monitoring and alarms.

I also build production-ready APIs with end-to-end observability using CloudWatch and SNS, and I’ve streamlined deployments with Docker and GitHub Actions to ECS Fargate. I enjoy working remotely with international clients and I’m open to remote Cloud Engineer and Cloud Support roles globally.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Remote IT Consultant

Current

Freelance

Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 6 months)

Delivered technical consulting for international clients, managing full project lifecycle independently across multiple time zones. Produced technical reports and communicated findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

AWS EC2 S3 VPC Lambda RDS DynamoDB ELB Networking DNS VPN SSL TLS HTTP(S)API Gateway IAM Cloudwatch Python BASH Terraform Docker GitHub Actions CI CD Linux SSH GuardDuty CloudTrail SNS Security Groups NACLs MySQL PostgreSQL

IT Society Vice President

Lahore Garrison University

Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 (1 year)

Organized workshops for 100+ students and co-organized the 1st International Conference on IT Infrastructure & Computational Security (2023). Helped coordinate student-focused and conference-level programming during the term.

Workshop Facilitation Event Organization Coordination Conference Coordination IT Infrastructure